Loom-temple-holding device.



N0. 7l4,737. Patent ed Dec. 2, 1902.

J. A. PERKINS &L. A. KING. LOUM'TEMPLE HOLDING DEVBGE,

(Applicition filed Fab. 3, 1902.)

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JOHN A. PERKINS AND LOUIS A. KING, OF SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNORS TO DRAPER COMPANY, OF HOPEDALE, MASSACHU- SETTS, A CORPORATION OF MAINE.

LOOlVl-TEMPLE-HOLDING DEVICE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 714,737, dated December 2, 1902. Application filed February 3, 1902. Serial No. 92,426. (No model.)

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Be it known that we, JOHN A. PERKINS and LOUIS A. KING, citizens of the United States, and residents of Salem, county of Essex, State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Loorn-Ternple-Holding Devices, of which the following description, in connection with the accompanying drawings, is a specification, like characters on the drawings representing like parts.

This invention relates ,to loom-tern ples, and more particularly to the means for supporting the temple on the breast-beam of the loom and it has for its object the production of novel means for readily adjusting the temple to the desired position relative to the lay or the cloth being woven without necessitating the use of different holding-plates.

By means of our invention a temple can be quickly and readily adapted to various styles of weaving and different kinds of looms and the temple-head can be tipped on an axis substantially at right angles to the breast-beam.

The various novel features of our invention will be hereinafter described, and particularly pointed out in the following claims.

Figure l is a transverse sectional view of a portion of a loom with one embodiment of our invention applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a view in elevation of the supporting means for the temple-stand viewed from the back of the loom, the temple and its stand and the wedge being omitted. Fig. 3 is a plan viewof the base-plate. Fig. 4 is a perspective view of the seat for the temple-stand, and Fig. 5 is a similar view of the adjustable wedge which cooperates with the seat.

The lay A, breast-beam B, the temple-head T, its slide-bar T, the stand T for the shank of the bar, and the spring S for maintaining the temple in normalposition may be and are all of well-known or usual construction.

In accordance with our present invention the supporting or holding device for the temple-stand comprises a base-plate a and a seat b mounted thereon, the base-plate, as clearly shown in Fig. 3, consisting of a metal plate adapted to rest on the breast-beam and having a longitudinal slot at at one end to receive the usual holding-bolt, by which it is securely held on the breast-beam. At its other end the base-plate is bifurcated to present two branches a (1 having thereon upturned ears a a respectively,and We have herein shown the plate as slitted longitudinally,as at a between the slot or and the base of the branches, so that the latter may be moved slightly toward and from each other. One of the ears, as a has a counterbored hole 0, therethrough, and the ear at has a threaded hole 04 in alinement with the hole a Astud 0, having a head a to readily enter the counterbored portion of the hole a, is threaded at the end of its shank, as at 0 (see dotted lines, Fig. 1,) to engage the threads of the hole er, the smooth part of the shank between the ears forming a fulcrum for the seat I), which is transverse to the breast-beam when the baseplate a is secured thereto. The seat b has a depending lug b, which enters between the ears a a Fig. 1, and said lug is bored to receive the shank of the stud 0, so that the seat can tip thereupon. When the stud is set up, it will draw the ears together and upon the interposed lug b, firmly clamping the latter, so that the seat is securely maintained at any desired angle or inclination relative to the top of the breast-beam. The stud thus serves as a fulcrum for the seat and also as a clamping device to maintain the seat in adjusted position. Flanges or ledges b on the top of the seat at its sides prevent lateral displacement of the stand, and retaining-screws 30, Fig. 1, pass through the usual slot of the stand into threaded holes 40, Fig. 4, in the bottom of the seat. An extension 72 at the outer end of the seat is roughened or transversely corrugated or toothed, as at 12 on its upper face to cooperate with similar corrugations d on the under face of a wedge d, having a smooth top and adapted to be interposed between the bottom of the seatand the temple-stand, a longitudinal slot at in the wedge receiving the shanks of the retainingscrews 30. By loosening the latter and moving the wedge in or out the temple-head will be lowered or raised, respectively, to adjust it relatively to the cloth, tightening of the screws maintaining the adjustment, and the cooperating corrugated portions d and b preventing any slip of the wedge. By loosening the fulcrum-clamp stud c the seat can be tipped thereon to vary the angle of the temple-head relatively to the plane of the cloth being woven, and thereafter such adjustment is 'maintained by tightening the clamping device, as described.

Our invention is not restricted to the precise construction and arrangement herein shown and described, as various changes or modifications thereof may be made by those skilled in the art without departing from the spirit and scope of our invention.

Having fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. A holding device for loom-temples, comprising a base-plate, bifurcated at one end and having upturned ears on the branches, a seat for the temple-stand, having a depending lug between said ears, and a stud mounted in said ears and threaded into one of them, said stud passing loosely through the lug and serving as a fulcrum for the seat, rotation of the stud to draw the ears together clamping mast the lug between them and maintaining the seat in adjusted position.

2. A holding device for loom-temples, comprising a base-plate, a seat for the templestand, recessed to receive the latter and having an extension provided with corrugations, an adjusting-Wedge to rest on the bottom of the seat and provided on its under face with corrugations, means to secure the templestand on the seat with the wedge between them, and a pivotal connection between the seat and the base-plate.

3. A holding device for loom-temples, comprising a base-plate, a seat for the templestand, means to vary the inclination of the bottom of the seat, and a pivotal connection between the seat and the base-plate independent of the means for varying the inclination of the bottom of the seat.

In testimony whereof we have signed our names to this specification in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

JOHN A. PERKINS. LOUIS A. KING. VVit-nesses:

FRED B. HAWLE'Y, HARRY W. KENNEY. 

